Happy May Day!

butcher · Apr 30, 2011

its past midnight here, so its now May Day, thought I'd get in first.

punkmar77 · Apr 30, 2011

Time-ist! been painting a banner for the last three days and I'm sick to death of it! Every bone in my body aches from the bizzare positions I have to take for hours on end....looking at about another 5 hours to finish

butcher · Apr 30, 2011

punkmar77 said:

Time-ist! been painting a banner for the last three days and I'm sick to death of it! Every bone in my body aches from the bizzare positions I have to take for hours on end....looking at about another 5 hours to finish

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spent the last two days writing (i know, two fuckin days, badarse writers block) and printing a flyer about the 'Caso Bombas' to distro today.
What shoulda taken an hour become a nightmare, and now i've just found a spelling mistake.

ungovernable · Apr 30, 2011

going to protest tomorrow, woot woot

Bakica · Apr 30, 2011

It's 21:42 here so I'll have to wait

punkmar77 · Apr 30, 2011

Wheat-pasted posters all last night after Diatribe practice, came home looking like the Pilsbury dough boy...

Carlos · Apr 30, 2011

May Day March & Rally
For Immigrant and Workers' Rights

Legalization now!
Stop deportations and attacks on workers!
Jobs, peace and justice for all!

Sunday, May 1, 10am
Corner of Olympic & Broadway, Downtown Los Angeles

JesusCrust · Apr 30, 2011

http://www.answercoalition.org/national ... demos.html
http://www.answercoalition.org/national ... demos.html
http://www.answercoalition.org/national ... demos.html

butcher · Apr 30, 2011

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QP4l_PeBMyk[/video]

SenI · May 1, 2011

Unfortunately, I won't able to participate on the demonstration . In my city, nothing among the anarchists did not organize because of according to controversial reasons, from a couple of upstarts making the kind of thyself a fucking cool theorists. It's sad... I wanted to going another city as early as this Friday , but missed the train that was very insulting for me.

Ehh... Skip it. I wish you to guys a good time and not repeated is crap like me. Good luck to you, guys .

Mike Nobody · May 1, 2011

punkmar77 said:

Wheat-pasted posters all last night after Diatribe practice, came home looking like the Pilsbury dough boy...

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doughboy DEAD by Mike Damn Nobody, on Flickr

doughboys dead by Mike Damn Nobody, on Flickr

vAsSiLy77 · May 1, 2011

So it's Happy May Day from here too, the annual leftwing family gathering is already survived, trots and communists where ever you look... we countered with a number of anti-out-of-area-intervention and anti-racism flyers, the local youth brigade had a great time handing them out to everyone within reach, somehow achieving some interesting direct response.
the planned strassenfest in our home area had to be switched to a local pub because of the weather, the owner already agreed beforehand to accept a free for all and the food-not-bombs-crew is doing the food supply. at the eve there will be some people doing folk music from afar and we will show two documentaries and have a public discussion afterwards. We make good progress! \m/

Derek Danger · May 2, 2011

butcher said:

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QP4l_PeBMyk[/video]

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Ahahaha, here it is again. Damn this video's inspirational. As an anarchist and an ardent fan of lounge singers, I'm impressed.

punkmar77 · May 2, 2011

butcher · May 2, 2011

Some pics (not mine) from melbourne rally:

more here

Barbara Shaw:

LASNET stall:

LASNET have currently got a Chilean activist in town, they spoke at the rally:

Nobody ↑ :

May Day speech
1 May 2011, Melbourne, Australia.
Maria Paz Toro

Firstly, I would like to thank the traditional owners of this land, who give me the opportunity to speak today, to the Latin American Solidarity Network (LASNET) who invite me to Australia to share the struggles of our people, to the May Day Committee who organise this beautiful day of struggles and demands for workers' rights in Australia, and the world and to all of those who consciously are here today.

Right now the most powerful people in the world, the millionaires and billionaires, are working against humanity anywhere you can imagine. the women and men workers of the world are who are suffering the effects of these powerful capitalists, that without any respect for the dignity of men and women, today more than ever are violating rights and killing people and also violating everything that the earth gives as, exploiting national resources which their rudely extract, standing on the rights of all the people and communities if that is necessary.

Right now is when we should be fighting, just as much for the rights of workers and poor people in general, and urgently for the rights of indigenous people, recognising their existence and their autonomy - both cultural and territorial autonomy.

It is really urgent that we unite and we get organise, so as to not allow them to bringing more policies that fails to respect our rights and take away all our human rights. We should not accept that multinational companies - big corporations use they political and economic power to enact laws that cause casualisation of the work force, subcontractors and flexibilise of the work force and the destabilisation for work.

Indigenous people, workers and poverty stricken people, we have to get organise to fight against imperialism, because everyday people are being marginalised and displaced, oppressed and moved into poverty. As is the case of Chile, the Mapuche indigenous communities where the Chilean state rips away the land belonging to the indigenous people, forcing them to leave their lands and to emigrate to other parts of Chile. That is why we have indigenous resistance, a resistance met with beatings from the police and the judicial system. They even get to the point to put them in jail and sentencing them, even killing indigenous people right now, these days where supposed to be democratic. All in order to not allow the Mapuche people to have their own culture and human rights, and they refuse to return their ancestral lands to them.

I like to bring a message to you from the people in Chile who are resisting and fighting in this environment of neoliberal capitalism in which they are trying to rip off all the natural resources and also the rights of indigenous people, I think we need to get together to make people listen to us. Because in the same way that those who own things and who are the bosses and powerful in the communities get together to exploit us and keep us oppressed and silenced, we the workers, the students and everybody in the society, the one of us that want a more dignified and educated society, we have to get together to be united against this common enemy, the same way we are fighting in Chile - we would like to globalise the struggle and get together to organise resistance in order to sooner or later we can change things.

That is why comrades, men and women, we need to get together because unity is strength, and whenever you are triumphing soon we are triumphing as well, whenever you pushing for you claims, and showing a really organised struggle, the enemy will start to tremble, and little by little we will make change, and we will achieve the social and political rights we deserve.

We must never let them take away the land of aboriginal people, and militarise communities as they did on the Northern Territory in Australia, we should not believe the lies that fascist press putting out, as everybody knows, the main tool used for alienation is the main media and the press, that the rich control and make us believe or think what they want, for instance that Capitalism has a human face.

Don’t believe in that lies, keep a critical analyses of what happen in front of us, don’t wait to see with your very own eyes the poverty and unhappiness before you know if it’s really happening, we have to mobilise, don’t just stay looking at what’s happening and be confused. In front of the crisis we are facing in the world, we have to become articulated and turned our anger into mobilisation. We have to mobilise the ideas that we have, and we have to create spaces where people get organised and create people power.

Only the struggle and organisation will make us free!
We call for the unity with aboriginal people, Indigenous people, for those who are poverty stricken and the workers,
Viva el Che, viva Miguel, viva Sandino, viva Allende.
Long live the workers and people who fight for their rights and liberation!
Until victory forever!

Maria Paz Toro

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LASNET also distro'd 100 flyers on the 'Caso Bombas', front:

sauced at: santiaskoanarquista.noblogs.org/posters/

Back:

butcher said:

On 14 August 2010, Chilean police and special task forces violently raided a number of squatted social centres and private homes in Santiago and Valparaíso. The results of these raids have become known as the ‘Caso Bombas’ (‘Bombings case’); a chimerical tale, pre-packaged for TV, told by the Chilean State in order to charge 14 people with ‘Illicit Terrorist Association’, and of transporting or placing explosive devices. A tale that is as flexible with reality as the charges are harsh in punitive measures.

Chile’s Antiterrorism Legislation

This Pinochet-era piece of legislation, written to combat anti-dictatorship guerrillas, has been getting a work out in post-dictatorship Chile. Condemned by the United Nations, Human Rights Watch and the UN Committee for the Elimination of Racism for its application against Indigenous Mapuche communities, it has also been implemented to prosecute Mapuche solidarity activists and, in this instance, the anarchist and anti-authoritarian milieu. The law allows for long periods of pre-trial detention (seven ‘bombings case’ defendants remain imprisoned, and a further three are under house arrest); the use of secret witnesses (often paid stooges or persons of questionable character and/or motives); restrictions on the defence’s access to evidence and cross examining witnesses; and lengthy prison sentences (in this case, 20 years for property damage) if convicted. Meanwhile the defendants sit in 2x3m cells for 22 hours a day, are intimidated and harassed by police and various functionaries, receive death threats, and, in one instance, even their friends and relatives are bashed by police and journalists during court hearings.

Speculative Fiction: ‘Illicit Terrorist Association’

The prosecutor in the ‘caso bombas’, Alejandro Peña, has never been a man to ‘go with the flow’. Disregarding an extensive five year investigation by three district attorneys which failed to identify anyone responsible for the bombings of financial, police, state and other institutions; disregarding the common sentiments within his field that such bombings were done by “groups that lack structure and act in a very precarious manner” or that “don’t belong to violent cells in and of themselves, rather they form part of loosely knit splinter groups without a leader”; disregarding that the defendants believe in and organise using non-hierarchical, directly democratic models; instead, channelling Tolkien, Peña fashioned a tree-diagram of a highly organised, hierarchical ‘illicit terrorist association’, complete with ‘ringleaders’, clearly defined roles for the lower ranks, even international financing! And all this from a disparate mix of personal friendships, political beliefs, attendance at rallies or that the defendants liked hanging out at social centres. A number of the defendants had not even met prior to being informed of their membership in this ‘terrorist association’. The books in libraries of social centres are seized as evidence to prove these spaces are conspiracy centres to manufacture bombs.
Maybe Peña should see a psychiatrist, or maybe this case is politically motivated?

The ongoing criminalisation of social movements

This ‘bombings case’ has nothing to do with ‘bringing to justice’ the persons responsible for a small number of incidents of property damage. Instead, like anti-terrorism cases brought against the Mapuche, this is a campaign to silence the State’s political opponents; namely those standing firm against the continuing violent incursions of national and transnational capital and the landed gentry; those fighting the rampant displacement, exploitation and violence inherent in neoliberalisation. It is unacceptable that those who fight for social justice find themselves facing the farce of this Pinochet era judicial process.

We stand in solidarity with our framed companer@s, we ask for you to voice your solidarity too!
Freedom for all Chilean & Mapuche Political Prisoners!
-Latin American Solidarity Network (LASNET)

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Derek Danger · May 4, 2011

butcher said:

Some pics (not mine) from melbourne rally:

more here

Barbara Shaw:

LASNET stall:

LASNET have currently got a Chilean activist in town, they spoke at the rally:

Nobody ↑ :

May Day speech
1 May 2011, Melbourne, Australia.
Maria Paz Toro

Firstly, I would like to thank the traditional owners of this land, who give me the opportunity to speak today, to the Latin American Solidarity Network (LASNET) who invite me to Australia to share the struggles of our people, to the May Day Committee who organise this beautiful day of struggles and demands for workers' rights in Australia, and the world and to all of those who consciously are here today.

Right now the most powerful people in the world, the millionaires and billionaires, are working against humanity anywhere you can imagine. the women and men workers of the world are who are suffering the effects of these powerful capitalists, that without any respect for the dignity of men and women, today more than ever are violating rights and killing people and also violating everything that the earth gives as, exploiting national resources which their rudely extract, standing on the rights of all the people and communities if that is necessary.

Right now is when we should be fighting, just as much for the rights of workers and poor people in general, and urgently for the rights of indigenous people, recognising their existence and their autonomy - both cultural and territorial autonomy.

It is really urgent that we unite and we get organise, so as to not allow them to bringing more policies that fails to respect our rights and take away all our human rights. We should not accept that multinational companies - big corporations use they political and economic power to enact laws that cause casualisation of the work force, subcontractors and flexibilise of the work force and the destabilisation for work.

Indigenous people, workers and poverty stricken people, we have to get organise to fight against imperialism, because everyday people are being marginalised and displaced, oppressed and moved into poverty. As is the case of Chile, the Mapuche indigenous communities where the Chilean state rips away the land belonging to the indigenous people, forcing them to leave their lands and to emigrate to other parts of Chile. That is why we have indigenous resistance, a resistance met with beatings from the police and the judicial system. They even get to the point to put them in jail and sentencing them, even killing indigenous people right now, these days where supposed to be democratic. All in order to not allow the Mapuche people to have their own culture and human rights, and they refuse to return their ancestral lands to them.

I like to bring a message to you from the people in Chile who are resisting and fighting in this environment of neoliberal capitalism in which they are trying to rip off all the natural resources and also the rights of indigenous people, I think we need to get together to make people listen to us. Because in the same way that those who own things and who are the bosses and powerful in the communities get together to exploit us and keep us oppressed and silenced, we the workers, the students and everybody in the society, the one of us that want a more dignified and educated society, we have to get together to be united against this common enemy, the same way we are fighting in Chile - we would like to globalise the struggle and get together to organise resistance in order to sooner or later we can change things.

That is why comrades, men and women, we need to get together because unity is strength, and whenever you are triumphing soon we are triumphing as well, whenever you pushing for you claims, and showing a really organised struggle, the enemy will start to tremble, and little by little we will make change, and we will achieve the social and political rights we deserve.

We must never let them take away the land of aboriginal people, and militarise communities as they did on the Northern Territory in Australia, we should not believe the lies that fascist press putting out, as everybody knows, the main tool used for alienation is the main media and the press, that the rich control and make us believe or think what they want, for instance that Capitalism has a human face.

Don’t believe in that lies, keep a critical analyses of what happen in front of us, don’t wait to see with your very own eyes the poverty and unhappiness before you know if it’s really happening, we have to mobilise, don’t just stay looking at what’s happening and be confused. In front of the crisis we are facing in the world, we have to become articulated and turned our anger into mobilisation. We have to mobilise the ideas that we have, and we have to create spaces where people get organised and create people power.

Only the struggle and organisation will make us free!
We call for the unity with aboriginal people, Indigenous people, for those who are poverty stricken and the workers,
Viva el Che, viva Miguel, viva Sandino, viva Allende.
Long live the workers and people who fight for their rights and liberation!
Until victory forever!

Maria Paz Toro

Click to expand...

LASNET also distro'd 100 flyers on the 'Caso Bombas', front:

sauced at: santiaskoanarquista.noblogs.org/posters/

Back:

butcher said:

On 14 August 2010, Chilean police and special task forces violently raided a number of squatted social centres and private homes in Santiago and Valparaíso. The results of these raids have become known as the ‘Caso Bombas’ (‘Bombings case’); a chimerical tale, pre-packaged for TV, told by the Chilean State in order to charge 14 people with ‘Illicit Terrorist Association’, and of transporting or placing explosive devices. A tale that is as flexible with reality as the charges are harsh in punitive measures.

Chile’s Antiterrorism Legislation

This Pinochet-era piece of legislation, written to combat anti-dictatorship guerrillas, has been getting a work out in post-dictatorship Chile. Condemned by the United Nations, Human Rights Watch and the UN Committee for the Elimination of Racism for its application against Indigenous Mapuche communities, it has also been implemented to prosecute Mapuche solidarity activists and, in this instance, the anarchist and anti-authoritarian milieu. The law allows for long periods of pre-trial detention (seven ‘bombings case’ defendants remain imprisoned, and a further three are under house arrest); the use of secret witnesses (often paid stooges or persons of questionable character and/or motives); restrictions on the defence’s access to evidence and cross examining witnesses; and lengthy prison sentences (in this case, 20 years for property damage) if convicted. Meanwhile the defendants sit in 2x3m cells for 22 hours a day, are intimidated and harassed by police and various functionaries, receive death threats, and, in one instance, even their friends and relatives are bashed by police and journalists during court hearings.

Speculative Fiction: ‘Illicit Terrorist Association’

The prosecutor in the ‘caso bombas’, Alejandro Peña, has never been a man to ‘go with the flow’. Disregarding an extensive five year investigation by three district attorneys which failed to identify anyone responsible for the bombings of financial, police, state and other institutions; disregarding the common sentiments within his field that such bombings were done by “groups that lack structure and act in a very precarious manner” or that “don’t belong to violent cells in and of themselves, rather they form part of loosely knit splinter groups without a leader”; disregarding that the defendants believe in and organise using non-hierarchical, directly democratic models; instead, channelling Tolkien, Peña fashioned a tree-diagram of a highly organised, hierarchical ‘illicit terrorist association’, complete with ‘ringleaders’, clearly defined roles for the lower ranks, even international financing! And all this from a disparate mix of personal friendships, political beliefs, attendance at rallies or that the defendants liked hanging out at social centres. A number of the defendants had not even met prior to being informed of their membership in this ‘terrorist association’. The books in libraries of social centres are seized as evidence to prove these spaces are conspiracy centres to manufacture bombs.
Maybe Peña should see a psychiatrist, or maybe this case is politically motivated?

The ongoing criminalisation of social movements

This ‘bombings case’ has nothing to do with ‘bringing to justice’ the persons responsible for a small number of incidents of property damage. Instead, like anti-terrorism cases brought against the Mapuche, this is a campaign to silence the State’s political opponents; namely those standing firm against the continuing violent incursions of national and transnational capital and the landed gentry; those fighting the rampant displacement, exploitation and violence inherent in neoliberalisation. It is unacceptable that those who fight for social justice find themselves facing the farce of this Pinochet era judicial process.

We stand in solidarity with our framed companer@s, we ask for you to voice your solidarity too!
Freedom for all Chilean & Mapuche Political Prisoners!
-Latin American Solidarity Network (LASNET)

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Aw, I love seeing photos of things I was at. And whaddya know? I'm in the fourth one! I feel like such a rockstar =p That was a very good day, I thoroughly enjoyed pissing of the SAlt dickheads by playing "Kill The Poor" at them. The union blokes loved it.

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